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To: Rascal who wrote (16542)10/31/1999 6:59:00 PM
From: E. Davies  Read Replies (2) of 29970
 

Who are the clowns?
What products are the junk?


Here is my view. Ah is your typical elitist. I suppose I am too in a way. The kind of people who watch PBS while the world hungers for Baywatch. I'm so removed from this stuff I dont even own a TV.

We see the success of AOL and simply wonder. I tried it *once* and simply shrugged my shoulders in wonder. Compuserve was tons better.

AOL is junk, Chase is a clown. So is Bell. What made AOL a huge success is mass bombings of disks and inane chat rooms. The masses *like* mediocre.

So what does Excite need? More junk. Like those electronic greeting cards from Bluemountain. I'd never even heard of Bluemountain until I saw not too long ago a list of the top non-portal web sites. For that week it was #1!

Excite (not @home) needs to be run by people who could just have easily have been game show producers. People need entertainment from the internet. The killer app behind all communications mediums has always been entertainment, and it always will be.

When Hollywood comes to the internet full force dial-up will blow away in the wind. Excite hosting the Emmy's on the internet and hosting things like "Talkin' trash with Lola" excite.com could show they have "the right stuff" for the coming storm.

Even more importantly as Ah said, people like this are willing to just keep on throwing stuff out at the public until something sticks. They dont try very carefully to prefilter whether its good enough for people to want. Thats what the people pleasing business is all about.

Eric
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